I gathered every conference session at the Marché du Film over the past three years (742 events, 1,664 speakers) to see who ...

I scored 460 British and Irish actors against six decades of Bond casting decisions to see who actually fits the brief, and ...

I crunched the data on the films of 190 directors (who had made at least four movies) and calculated 'When you line up a ...

Here is a 36-page guide I wrote for Raindance on how to best navigate the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film. Download your free copy below: Every spring, around this time, my inbox develops a ...

To aid an episode of Matt Belloni’s podcast The Town with the Hollywood producer Todd Garner, I was asked to crunch the numbers on longer movies. It’s a question I’ve looked at before on this site, ...

For most of movie history, a movie had one producer. In the 1940s and 1950s, the vast majority of movies credited just one producer. Even through the 1970s, producer teams were small and stable. That ...

I’m starting on a journey to track the numbers behind great acting. I began with a performance that breaks my heart every time I watch it - Emma Thompson’s in Love Actually. I’ll be uploading new ...

Today we’re going sonic. Not, not that one - we’re moving on to the audio of movies. I built a system to identify every sound event from almost 2,000 action movies made over the past 75 years. We’re ...

Earlier this year, YouTuber Markiplier released Iron Lung, a $3.6 million horror film he wrote, directed, edited, and stars in. The film went on to gross more than $50 million at the worldwide box ...